While Westminster wasn’t able to successfully defend its Class A-AAAAA girls’ swimming team championship, the Wildcats still got a state title from Katie Christy.

The junior won the 200-yard individual medley with a season-best time of 2 minutes, 3.31 seconds and finished runner-up in the 100 breaststroke at 1:04.50 – placing a close second to Pope’s Emma Murray (1:04.36) – to help Westminster to a third-place finish in the A-AAAAA team standings.

It was the second consecutive state title in the 200 IM for Christy, who won the event last year with a time of 2:04.40. She also won the state crown in the 100 breaststroke as a freshman in 2012.

“She’s one of our leaders,” Westminster coach Pete Higgins said. “She has a good rapport with the underclassmen and also the seniors on top of her. She has a lot of versatility and we can use her in a lot of different ways.”

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